It seems that hardly a month goes by without another malicious BitTorrent client appearing for download, hoping to dupe inexperienced and unsuspecting file-sharers into installing malware. As new kid on the block ‘Get-Torrent’ hits the web, we scratch below the surface to find the same old malware and the same old story.
The popular BitTorrent site Snarf-it.org is down at the moment. Apparently some incompetent people at the datacentre messed up the server. At Snarf-it.org we read this funny coverstory: Where is Snarf-It? Your guess is as good as ours, at some point last night our database servers disappeared, and we really mean disappeared. The data centre [...]
Snarf-it.org, the torrent site built on the remains of the Suprnovaforums is back. New owner, same torrents. snarf-it.org is now back online with it’s 300k torrent database and clean easy to use interface, no popups or sell out ads there. That however is the last time you will see any information from ourselves promoting it [...]
Snarf-it.org, the torrent site that was created by the hardcore members of the Suprnovaforums died. The site recently reopened exactly 1 year after the famous BitTorrent site ‘suprnova.org’ died. It ressurected after the site was relocated to stay out of legal troubles. Snarf-it, was becoming a synonym for change over the past year. Snarf-it went [...]
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